[R] shading in line plots

[James W. MacDonald]

Mulholland, Tom wrote:
> Just a little bit of trivia.
> 
> The 2001 Census in Australia had a significant group of people who
> responded to the question of religion with the answer Jedi or Jedi
> Knight. Unfortunately the Australian Bureau of Statistics is a bit
> fuddy duddy about the issue as they see it as a trivialisation of the
> question rather than as a serious sociological (not necessarily
> religious) response by certain sections of the community, otherwise
> we might have had a complete profile of said ubergeeks. One small
> point is that the question on religion is the only voluntary (or
> optional as the ABS puts it) question in the form.
> 
> www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3110124.NSF/
> 0/86429d11c45d4e73ca256a400006af80?OpenDocument
> 
> (you need to keep the space before the zero otherwise you end up
> elsewhere on the ABS site. The document is called "The 2001 Census,
> Religion and the Jedi")
> 
> Tom
> 

It's possible that my reactions are colored by living in the US with
Bush et al. running the show, but my first reaction when I see a
document put out by a government that states 'we haven't threatened
anyone' several times makes me wonder who they have been threatening...


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